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SA’s criminal justice system: Where the process is the punishment – Martin van Staden - Biznews
Recently, over lunch, a practising advocate revealed to me that there is a principle in our criminal law (and that of many other jurisdictions): there are no ...
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JSC members’ flawed reasoning and phoney criteria a threat to the rule of law – IRR
The rule of law, and democracy in South Africa, are threatened by the flawed reasoning and phoney criteria on the part of some members of the Judicial Service ...
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Accuracy vital in reporting on sensitive issues – IRR
The IRR has called on prominent media in South Africa, including Eyewitness News (EWN), The Sowetan, and SABC, to correct widespread misreporting of an alleged ...
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Letter: Reporting on farmers requires more accuracy - Business Day
Coverage elsewhere of the recent case of alleged assault by two Groblersdal men on an employee has attracted a sizeable volume of reporting — much of which ...
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Andrew Kenny: “Kill the boer” and the complexities of free speech - Biznews
After Julius Malema had chanted ‘Shoot to kill! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Brrrr! Pah! Pah!’ to thunderous applause in front of a ...
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Crime is both down and up – and the state is NOT the primary policeman
Though traumatised by crime – illustrated earlier this week by the release of the latest crime statistics – South African society can take some comfort in the ...
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One can only be amused by Gauteng’s new ‘crime prevention’ wardens – Ivo Vegter - Biznews
Panyaza Lesufi, the Premier of Gauteng, has taken a leaf out of Western Cape Premier Alan Winde’s book with his provincial Crime Prevention Wardens.
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Thabo Bester prison escape places public-private run prisons in the spotlight - eNCA
Thabo Bester's escape has thrust the running of prisons by public-private partnerships. What are the risks, if at all, that come with outsourcing a core ...
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Compromising herd immunity - Farming Portal
Over the past few years, the Covid pandemic and the various responses to it turned vaccines into a major talking point – appropriately or oddly, depending on ...
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A complicated reality on SA’s farms - Politicsweb
I doubt that Yvonne Busisiwe Phyllis would find much common ground with me. She is a director of The Forge, which describes itself as ‘a mixed-use space for ...
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